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   On Oct 24, 2024 at 8:45:25 AM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > On 10/23/2024 8:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>  On Oct 23, 2024 at 3:40:35 PM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  On 10/23/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>>    On Oct 23, 2024 at 9:39:35 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>    Vice President Kamala Harris held an event in Michigan on Monday that   
   was   
   >>>>>    billed as a "town hall"-- but when attendees asked if their questions   
   were   
   >>>>>    going to be answered, host Maria Shriver admitted that all of the   
   >>>>> questions   
   >>>>>    had already been pre-determined.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    The video showed Shriver, who is the niece of former President John F.   
   >>>>>    Kennedy, responding to an audience member who asked whether anyone   
   present   
   >>>>>    would be allowed to ask a question of the Democratic presidential   
   >>>>> nominee--   
   >>>>>    which traditionally is the point of the town hall format in the first   
   >>>>>  place--   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    and she told them that they would just have to rely on her to ask the   
   >>>>>    questions that they would most want to have answered.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    "You're not, unfortunately, we have some pre-determined questions and   
   I   
   >>>>>    hopefully will be able to ask some of the questions that might be in   
   your   
   >>>>>    head, I hope so," Shriver said.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    "And this woman-- Maria Shriver, no less-- cosplays as a journalist   
   at NBC   
   >>>>>    News!" Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters, responded.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    "Nothing says 'town hall' like predetermined questions," another   
   social   
   >>>>>  media   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    user said.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Wasn't it Shawn that was castigating Trump for his performative   
   politics   
   >>>>  just   
   >>>>    a few says ago? Well, here you go. Kammie's no better.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>    A number also argued that if the questions were pre-determined, it was   
   >>>>>  likely   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    that Harris and her campaign team had access to them and had prepared   
   >>>>> their   
   >>>>>    responses prior to the event. Still more noted that, after nearly 48   
   hours   
   >>>>>  of   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>    Democrats and media complaining about how "scripted" former President   
   >>>>> Donald   
   >>>>>    Trump’s visit to McDonald's had been, it seemed a little on the   
   nose for   
   >>>>>    Harris to do a "town hall" without a single surprise question.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Yep. All those bitching about Trump's staged appearance-- even those on   
   >>>> this   
   >>>>    newsgroup-- are strangely silent when Kammie pulls the same sort of   
   stunt.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    What was the audience even there for? If it's not really a town hall   
   >>>> format   
   >>>>    and no one gets to ask questions, Shriver could have just done an   
   >>>> in-studio   
   >>>>    interview with Kammie and left it at that. But no, instead Kammie's   
   people   
   >>>>  go   
   >>>>    to all the trouble to bring in an audience under the ruse of it being a   
   >>>> town   
   >>>>    hall when all they really wanted was a room full of people to act as   
   >>>>    background props for her campaign.   
   >>>   
   >>>  'Ruse'?  You think the audience showed up to ask questions?   
   >>   
   >>  Sounds like at least some of them did.   
   >>   
   >>>  Seems it was a live interview conducted before an audience   
   >>   
   >>  Yes, but that's not what a town hall is.   
   >   
   > Please cite your definitive definition.   
      
   No, I'm not playing your games. Everyone knows the difference between a town   
   hall event and a press interview.   
      
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